Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-01
A BURGLAR HER DREAM.
Strange Story of a Pretty Girl in New
Rochelle.
From the ye,O York Star.

From the Ne,0 York Star.
Few small places can turn out more
sensations in a given time than New Ro-
chelle, and It's Inhabitants point with
pride to its Prominence. Burglaries are
of weekly occurrence; spoOks terrorize
ladies' by bursting into houses at night
unannOunced; men are run over by the
trains every now and then, and others
are so careless that the station master
says he can hardly keep them of the
track. Something wrong is in the atmOs-
phere. just now tongues are wagging
and eyes WinEing about the peculiar cir
cumstances connected with robbery
that occurred on Monday night at house
on Leland avenue, where live Mrs. Caro-
line Berrian and her niece, Miss Irene
MerEmaR.
Miss Aefriman is a handsome, dark
eyed Western girl, and is very courageous
and Skilled q the use of the revolver. She
livesTh indiana, but bias been with her
aunt about year. Her brothers taught
her TO, shoot aud take care of herself when
quite young. SO that on Monday at mid
night, when she heard a noise downstairs,
she awakened her amt, threw up the
window, s1fleked to the nearest nelghbor
and tiredEHei% PISTOL into the darkness
thrice. Then,Ylth a light in one hand and
her cooked IfssOlver in the other she went
downstairs, ready TO put the two remain
ing charges into any enterprising bur lar
who should happen to ne still burgling.
He had burgled and gone. The aunt and
niece found the dining room open, their
winter clothes, including q sealsk IN
sacque and a handsome dress piled on IA
blanket IN the par0r, and the skirt of one
OF Miss Irene's dresses out III the yard.
Mr., George Schirmer, who lives next door,
came over and discovered that the smut
tiers of the kitchen were opened siIghtIv
Rnd it was thought that the burglar or
Burglars had got in there. Search re-
'Vealed that Mrs, Berrian's pocketboook,
which was in n bureau upstairs and con-
tanned S27, was gone as well as a hand
some gold watch. The house was barred
and bolted, and aunt aud niece went to
bed.
Now comes the curious part of the
story. Miss Irene fell asleep about an
hour afterward and had a dream. She
saw, she says, a short, thickset man
with fair complexion and light NOUS
tache, whom she believed was the burglar
and whom she would recognize again,
standing by her bedside. He told her
that il she went out into the yaId she
would find the watch hanging on the
branches of q certain apple tree.
'sAs soon as it was daylight" said she
to the Star reporter last night. 81 got up
and went to that apple tree, and there
was the watch on the tree Just as he said,
within easy reach, with the cham
crumpled up so that it would not hang
over"
Now that is curious isn't it?" said
Mrs. Berrian. 81 suppose the burglar
was afraid it would be found on him il he
was caught, and lie put 1t there expecting
TO come back and set it,"
The vision didn't tell you where the
money wasp asked the reporter.
NO" said Irene. smiling; "but I'd like
to get mold of him."
This is the second robbery of this kind :"
added Mrs. Berrlan. "Last August burg
lars came IN and sole 500 from me, and,
curiously enough, we discovered the same
gold watch on the mat, where 1t had evil
denly been dropped"
The story got abroad. Some believed
that Miss Merrim1u was a sieep-walker,
ANA that she had done the robbing herself.
Others were not 50 charitable. Mrs. Ber-
rian laughed when these reports were re-
peated 10 her.
ave discharged servant some time
ago." SAID she, land she mas been talking
about us, | nave heard"
"rhars a little peculiar, that dream"
sad the man. snow would YOU imagine
that a woman would 90 TO sleep an hour
after the robbery had been committed, in
stead of sitting uD the rest OF the night
with all lights burning? Perhaps she Is
Mrs. - eets an income every
month";" sam bther, land everybody
knows 1t, and rs natural for the bur-
glars 10 try to get it. People do nothing
but gabble here in this town"
This is the third robbery that has oc-
investigated this last one. They don't be-
lleye III 1t. Mrs. Berriau is said to be u
sister OF Recorder Smythe.
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